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The Common Reader
by WOOLF, Virginia
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/Fair
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1925. First edition, sixth impression. Hardcover. Good +/Fair. 332 p. 22 cm. Navy cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket darkened on exterior and top edges of flaps. Chips in head and heel of jacket spine and some stains. Gilt wearing thin on spine. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Occasional spots on darkened pages.
The author wrote essays on Chaucer, Montaigne, the Duchess of Newcastle, Evelyn, Defoe, Addison, Austen, the Brontes, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, etc. Kirkpatrick A.8(b).
The author wrote essays on Chaucer, Montaigne, the Duchess of Newcastle, Evelyn, Defoe, Addison, Austen, the Brontes, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, etc. Kirkpatrick A.8(b).
Synopsis
Woolf’s first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as “Modern Fiction” and “The Modern Essay.” Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Attic Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 107947
- Title
- The Common Reader
- Author
- WOOLF, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, sixth impression
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Essays, Literary criticism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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